Tiene que haber algo en los libros, cosas que no podemos imaginar para hacer que una mujer permanezca en una casa que arde. Ahí tiene que haber algo. Uno no se sacrifica por nada”.

I’m basically a know-it-all, and I’m writing a book about it. I want it to be called ‘Danson on Water’ and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small...

For me, it’s writing a book and telling people about this story.

When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated,...

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It’s funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom’s music,...

I don’t like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way – in my opinion – to make good readers is to let kids choose their own...

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn’t read all the good books in this lifetime.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you’re a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you’re...

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you’ve done it all before, and you’re going to do it again, so why do it at all.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

No,” Robert said, the truth dawning over him. Michael didn’t talk like someone who was guessing—he talked like someone who knew.

You are the guardian and custodian of your heart, remember this always!

Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone’s heart; know that you’re really loved.

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually ‘Charlotte’s Web.’

I’m not a comic book guy at all.

The first book I fell in love with was ‘Little Toot,’ the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Don’t predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don’t judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!

Untuk bisa membaca banyak buku diperlukan dua hal dimana uang dan waktu tidak termasuk diantaranya. Dua hal tersebut adalah gairah dan kerendahan hati bahwa kita banyak tak tahu.

Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don’t see any evidence that he knew what...

A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read,” a third reader says, “but at every rereading I seem to be reading a new book, for the first time. Is it...

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I’m g-lyn and I addictive to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across lightly texture paper. My eyes squint against the lost of time within...

As a fan of Agatha Christie, I think a brilliant mystery novel would be trying to identify the meat contents in a McDonald’s hamburger.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied.

Like calls to like

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it’s supposed to.

Skulle det vara roligt, det där att skriva? Det visste han inte om han tyckte. Efter fem koppar te, två soppåsar med hopknycklade papper och en väldig massa kliande i håret med en nyvässad blyertspenna,...

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no...

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Deux choses donnent du sens à la vie : les livres et l’amour.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book...

For starters, let’s dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg – sorry – for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless – sorry,...

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, thatevery breath was charmed and crisp.

I guess another message I’d like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail… I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I’d get to...

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith’s revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to...

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.